what the questions mean

... rough approximation, these are “conceptual” questions There is a conceptual dimension in the very understanding of the key terms of the questions What, more precisely, they mean? How are we to ... to further issues suggested by main themes of the book 2 Terminology: What the Questions Mean Let us return to our original questions: What does it take for an individual to represent the physical ... in my questions What understanding of the term motivates interest in the questions and admits of interesting answers? There is another “conceptual” dimension that bears on answers to the questions, ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:10

... sentence (i.e., the mean value of the last syllable minus the mean value of the first syllable: F0_slope, Int_slope) For the syllabic duration, the mean (dur _mean) and the length of final syllable ... calculated the mean values of F0 and intensity on each sentence (F0 _mean, Int _mean) , the slope of last syllable (F0_final_slope, Int_Final_slope) and the slope of whole sentence (i.e., the mean value ... attitudes, the F0 curves at the middle of sentence (from the second syllable to the next-to-last syllable) are nearly similar The F0 contours of the attitudes are mostly different at the first and the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 10:19

... Introduction- provides the overview of the study with the rationale, the objectives, the research questions, the methods, the scope, the significance and the design of the study Part Two- Development- ... all of the interviews Before the interview started, the researcher explained the nature of the research, the purpose of the interview and the amount of time to complete the conversation The researcher ... the effectiveness of pre-writing activities to the students at Ngô Quyền High School Research questions of the study To achieve the objectives of the study, the thesis is designed to answer the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:32

... song newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, ... meanings When audience can understand the lyrics of the original song and they make comparison, they mainly recognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones Hence, they ... students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of the music...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53

... searching it out, whatever the obstacles Once there, you will take the action that your mind persuades you is the right course Your salient qualities have their advantages They can also produce ... Observers IMP SP IMP TW SH SH CF ME RI ME CO RI CO PL SP The following are the relative sizes of each slice of the pies, expressed as a percentage of the total: Self-Perception PL RI CO SH ME TW IMP ... point and turn out to be right in the end, you may not win any friends among your sparring partners There is always the danger that you will over-emphasize the power of pure reason You may have...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... trajectory of the vehicle At the end of the maneuver, the vehicle should be in the neighboring lane with the same state variables otherwise (velocity, lateral position in the lane, heading) The symbol ... the single point Qi This is to say that the 3-D depth to the point in the real world mapped is lost in the image This is the major challenge for monocular vision Therefore, the rectangle in the ... Geodetic CS of the object (rod); geodetic CSs are defined with their X-Y-plane in the horizontal plane and their origin at the center of gravity of the object The orientation of the x-axis in the horizontal...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... window then the objects in the scene beyond the window can be represented in accurate perspective simply by tracing their outlines on the surface of the window Another device, which combined the ... and the equality of the distances [of points on it] from the eye Now sight perceives those parts of the sky near the horizon to be farther away than parts near the middle of the sky; and there ... example; they can be seen following exposure to bright light, they take on the shape of the intense stimulus, and they linger for an appreciable time They could have acted, together with the reflections...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:59

... objects that may be present in the scene Furthermore, the existence of a cup is not guaranteed if the command was not given in the vicinity of the table If the cup is found, the robot must plan and ... origin of the world frame When this is not the case, X must be transformed from the world frame to the camera frame before applying the projection The position and orientation of the camera in the ... baseline 2b and centred at the focal points of the cameras The direction of the X and Y -axes, parallel to the image plane of the cameras, are defined by the ordering of pixels on the image plane in computer...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 12:08

... response of the robot is given in Figure 18 The errors in tempo at the beginning of the sequence comes from the tracker’s error in detecting the actual bar position The mean- squared errors for the bar ... 4/4 bar in the music The disks are rotated with the same speed over the congas The positions of the sticks are adjusted according to the positions of the conga hits specified by the sheet music ... known, they have to be learned at the beginning In order to learn the spectral templates of the acoustic events, we not need the tempo and the bar position information of the training data Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... response of the robot is given in Figure 18 The errors in tempo at the beginning of the sequence comes from the tracker’s error in detecting the actual bar position The mean- squared errors for the bar ... 4/4 bar in the music The disks are rotated with the same speed over the congas The positions of the sticks are adjusted according to the positions of the conga hits specified by the sheet music ... known, they have to be learned at the beginning In order to learn the spectral templates of the acoustic events, we not need the tempo and the bar position information of the training data Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... one of the accent categories provided for the task (e.g., Clopper [8]; Clopper and Pisoni [34–36], van Heuven and van Leyden [39]) in order to assess the effect of their accent background on the ... 3.1 The training audio was accessible by the listeners throughout the test Listeners were not These audio samples represented characteristics of each accent clearly Based on posttest survey, the ... transcribe to the best of their ability the speech content they heard Transcription word-error rates were automatically calculated based on word insertion, deletion, and substitution The results...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... one of the accent categories provided for the task (e.g., Clopper [8]; Clopper and Pisoni [34–36], van Heuven and van Leyden [39]) in order to assess the effect of their accent background on the ... 3.1 The training audio was accessible by the listeners throughout the test Listeners were not These audio samples represented characteristics of each accent clearly Based on posttest survey, the ... transcribe to the best of their ability the speech content they heard Transcription word-error rates were automatically calculated based on word insertion, deletion, and substitution The results...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... functional analysis They further argued that these tools realize their full efficiency when they are put into a well-defined algebraic structure, most of the time of a vectorial nature In the LIP approach, ... Indeed, contrary to the classical convention, the gray range is inverted in the LIP model, since the gray tone designates the total whiteness, while the real number M represents the absolute blackness ... complete darkness, the bioelectrical intensity delivered by the retinal stage of the eyes is equal to a mean constant value They have also established that the increase of the incident light...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... gradually accepting the use of plastic money, there is a need for proper segmentation, as there are different explanations for the use of credit card On the other side the gap between the consumption ... transaction The research questions that this paper attempts to inquire are: RQ1 : What is the general perception about credit card usage among the non-card holder? RQ2: What factors contribute towards the ... people the age of 18-24, which forms almost 50% of the population This age group treasures convenience the most They are technology savvy and anything for the sake of the perceived status The study...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 14:21

... predicted The prediction errors are then used to improve the internal state representation, taking the Jacobian matrices and the confidence in the models for the motion processes as well as for the ... attention On the second level from the bottom, the basic skills are represented with the expert for gaze control (GC) in the box to the right This process runs on the processor closest to the hardware ... much on the basic shape of the body and on the means for locomotion of the subject Legged motion widely spread in biological systems is hardly found in technical systems On the other hand, the “axle-andwheels”...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20

... stems from the outer front wheel Rfout For this radius, the relation to the radius of the center of the rear axle Rr, the width of the vehicle track bTr and the axle distance are given at the lower ... This shows that the “idealized” doublet is the second derivative of the step function and the first derivative of the Dirac impulse; since in the Lapace-domain forming the derivative means multiplication ... distance by the lateral speed vEP at the end of the first pulse yields the time LC spent driving straight ahead in the center section y EP ) / vEP (3.21) LC = (w L Turning the vehicle back to the original...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20

... therefore, be discarded for vehicle recognition, in general On the other hand, with low light levels in the environment, the glass surfaces of the lighting elements on the front and rear of the ... is even further out in the future than individual behavior But there is no doubt that the methods will become available in the long run 3.6 Growth Potential of the Concept, Outlook The concept ... oneself and other subjects, usually, their future behavior can only be hypothesized based on the situation given and the behavioral capabilities of the subjects observed However, out of the set of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20

... orientations The larger the parameter n0, the less pronounced is the extreme value in the search direction, and the more tolerant it is to deviations in angle These robustness aspects make the method ... and m+d be the slopes of the tangents at points P d and P+d respectively; s be the running variable in the direction of the arc (edge line); and the angle between the local tangent and the chord ... from a second integral of the curvature model With the origin at the center of the chord, x in the direction of the chord, y normal to it, and m d as the angle between the tangent and chord directions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20

... for the near range and the sky, fine scale image analysis can be confined to that part of the image containing regions further away After the road has been identified nearby, the boundaries of these ... another threshold value traceNmin that limits the sum of the two eigenvalues According to the main diagonals of Equations 5.42 and 5.46, this means prescribing a minimal value for the sum of the ... is found, the following items are computed as a measure of the quality of approximation to the interpolating straight line: The slope a, the average value b, and the variance Var of the differences...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20